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Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., left, listen as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian Federation, on Capitol Hill in Washington , Tuesday, June 13, 2017.

The long-term consequences need to be addressed now, they said. One of her closest allies, Damian Green, defended May on Saturday, adding that a team would go to the area to answer questions from residents. A prominent British Labour Party lawmaker is calling for police and the government to seize all documents relating to the renovation of a London high-rise destroyed by a fire that killed dozens of its residents.

Polling agency projections suggested Macron's Republic on the Move! French President Emmanuel Macron's 14-mo. Macron has said he wants to embody a "Jupiterian" vision of the presidency - whereby the president, very much like the Roman god of gods, speaks rarely except to issue orders.

On the World Environment Day, India's External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj dismissed US President's charges and said that India has been engaged in preserving the environment for over 5,000 years and it didn't sign the Paris Pact under any pressure or out of any greed to get money.

The Lions arrived in Hamilton, Gatland's home town, on Sunday morning before taking part in a light training session, with the "mid-week players" separated from the Test group. Gatland also confirmed that George Kruis was taken off on Saturday due to an injury concern. "I can understand why Warren Gatland has done what he has", McGeechan said.

UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond said the cladding - which has been widely blamed for helping spread the blaze - was banned in Europe and the US . Prime Minister Theresa May has been criticised for her muted response to the fire and had to be rushed away from a meeting with residents on Friday under heavy police guard as protesters shouted "Shame on you".

Ryan Dillon said Friday: "We can not confirm these reports at this time". "The Russians probably received inaccurate information in this regard", he said. Al-Hashimi said the other Isis leader , al-Beljiki, was unlikely to have been in Syria at the time of the attack. Other media reports have previously claimed he had been killed or critically injured by US-led coalition air strikes.

Warmbier is in stable a condition at the UC Medical Center, where he was taken after his arrival in OH on Wednesday, after more than 17 months in North Korean captivity. The 22-year-old arrived back in the USA on Tuesday after being detained in the pariah state since January 2016. The father of the man held for almost a year and half by North Korea is thanking the Trump administration for "aggressively" working to secure his release.

The government is carrying out an "urgent inspection" of roughly 2,500 similar tower blocks across the country to assess their safety. Hammond told a weekly BBC politics show that a criminal investigation will examine whether building regulations had been breached when the block was renovated.

But even facing those challenges, there was rare optimism among Senate Republicans on Tuesday. "They need to be willing to completely drop repeal", the leadership aide said, describing the message from Democrats and Republicans as: "We're ready to sit down and work with you as soon as you guys tell us you're off repeal".

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday took on the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), saying it was pursuing a Panamagate case filed against the Sharif family in a biased manner. The Supreme Court has been pretty clear about its no-nonsense approach towards the JIT, even if the honourable court itself left a little something to be desired while investigating the case - strangely not asking for the money trail of said Panama companies, even though it is the first port of call in such ...

Hodgkinson, the man who shot up a congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning, was allegedly a strong Democratic partisan who was outraged over the election of Donald Trump . Hodgkinson was spotted regularly over the past several weeks at the YMCA next to the site of the shooting, sitting with a computer in the lobby or at a table in an exercise area that looked out onto the baseball field.

Police said It appears the suspect, Darwin A. Martinez Torres, 22, of Sterling, got out of his auto and allegedly "assaulted" the victim. Police said the girl's friends then later reported they could not find her and police were called to help.

Media in Portugal said the fire is no closer to being contained despite about 600 firefighters working to put them out. The European Union responded to a call for assistance by Portuguese authorities. The prime minister said the emergency services acted as fast as they could but acknowledged that some of the efforts like alerting the population might have been hindered because the blaze had ruined phone lines and communications towers.

Thursday's short-range missiles flew about 200km, an improvement on a 2015 test when a North Korean surface-to-ship cruise missile flew only 100km, Korea Defence Forum analyst Shin Jong-Woo said. He said the United Kingdom was looking at details of the launches and it's possible "that they come underneath a threshold to count as a violation".

Britain and the European Union begin tough Brexit talks on Monday, trying to complete one of the most complex negotiations in history in less than two years. The thought of a clean break also prompted one pro-European activist, Gina Miller, to urge Britons to vote tactically in the general election to deny May the big majority she craved.

Thursday's legislation levies new sanctions against Russian entities related to corruption, arms sales to the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime, human rights abuses, and "malicious cyber activity on behalf of the Russian government". During his presidency, Barack Obama placed restrictions on Russian Federation for the annexation of Crimea and tampering with the 2016 us presidential election.

It was unclear whether the president's comment confirming he was under investigation was based on direct knowledge or media reports that Mueller is examining whether the president obstructed justice by firing Comey . The revelation led many to believe Trump was planning on firing Rosenstein from the Justice Department , or that the deputy attorney general had possibly refused to fire Mueller on Trump's behalf.

Meanwhile, the Congressional committees handling the Russian Federation probe have asked the administration to show any evidence and Comey himself as said he hopes there are tapes . During an interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace, Sekulow defended Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey . He said Trump's statement on Twitter Friday was specifically in response to a story in The Washington Post about the expanding probe into Russia's election meddling.

Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey . Comey said he believes Trump ultimately fired him "because of the Russian Federation investigation". Mueller met Wednesday with the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to ensure their investigations don't conflict. The DOJ statement by Rosenstein raised some eyebrows on social media Thursday evening.

There were also hints that his relations with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were on a downslide. The AAP top brass and scores of its members have reportedly been unhappy with Vishwas after he asked party's volunteers in Rajasthan not to stay in five-star hotels and farmhouses.

Sekulow said, "The president is not under investigation by the special counsel". Sekulow made four TV appearances on Sunday to clarify the situation. Thus, the responsibility of supervising the Russian Federation investigation fell to the highly respected Rod Rosenstein, who had been serving as acting attorney general prior to Sessions' Senate confirmation.

Search and rescue workers found the bodies inside the USS Fitzgerald after it returned to port at the Yokosuka Naval Base south of Tokyo , and water was pumped out of flooded areas on the crushed starboard side of the ship. Naval base in Yokosuka , southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. Two others were airlifted off the ship and treated in the hospital for lacerations and bruises.

The attack set off fierce clashes, and Afghan officials say the siege was still underway. Six U.S. troops have been killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan so far in 2017. The Afghan conflict is the longest in American history, with US-led forces at war there since 2001, after the ousting of the Taliban regime. The Islamist group often amplify casualty numbers in attacks against government targets and security forces.

An Israeli policewoman was stabbed and critically wounded in the attack, police said , with security forces shooting dead three suspected Palestinian assailants. Back to the terrorists claiming responsibility - IS and Hamas are Islamist terror organizations (the PFLP is secular Marxist). Israel security forces raided the village a day after an attack in Jerusalem killed a police officer .

Just four weeks after taking office and 14 months after founding his Republique en Marche (REM), or Republic on the Move party, his candidates are poised to dynamite the traditional parties that have dominated French politics for half a century.

The Senate passed the bill, which also includes additional sanctions on Iran, by an overwhelming 98-2 vote with Sens. The measure is meant to punish Russian Federation for meddling in the 2016 USA election, its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and support for Syria's government in the six-year-long civil war.

It has offered a reward of up to $25m (£19.6m) for information leading to his capture or death. "If he has been killed, of course it would deal a big blow to the group, but let's just look at the past few weeks - we've had major terror attacks in London, in Baghdad , in Tehran, in Kabul".

A White House official stressed that Ruddy "speaks for himself", not the Trump administration. "One of my sources reached out to me just before we went on air, and they said there's mass hysteria in the West Wing about this". Though the Justice Department maintains that it has fully disclosed the extent of Sessions' foreign contacts a year ago, lawmakers have continued to press him for answers about an April 2016 event at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where both Sessions and Kislyak ...

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran. The Senate bill imposes mandatory sanctions on people involved in Iran's ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them. It would also allow new sanctions on state-owned entities of the Russian economy, including mining, metal, shipping and railways. The power would allow congress to strengthen those sanctions in retaliation for Moscow's alleged interference in the 2016 election ...

The local Grenfell Action Group had claimed, before and during a major 10-million-pound refurbishment of Grenfell Tower a year ago, that the block constituted a fire risk and residents had warned that access to the site for emergency vehicles was "severely restricted".

Later, dozens of people appeared to push and shove each other outside the town hall. Scuffles broke out in the crowd as Mrs May's auto drove away from the scene of the disaster. She met with injured survivors in hospital on Friday. "That's one of the most bad things I have ever seen", Prince William said of the tower's blackened shell.

Rosenstein is at the center of Comey's departure: His memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the basis that White House officials and Trump himself have used to defend Comey's dismissal, despite the FBI's ongoing investigation into the 2016 campaign and Russia's attempts to help Trump win.

So what is a confidence and supply agreement and how will it work in the UK? However, a deal with the DUP also risks destabilizing Northern Ireland by increasing the influence of pro-British unionists. Mrs Foster said: "There's been a lot of commentary around the issues that we are talking about and it won't surprise anyone that we are talking about matters that pertain, of course, to the nation generally".

There is also a Muslim Welfare House on Seven Sisters Road where police said they were dealing with an incident. According to the law enforcements, the incident caused a number of casualties, one person has been arrested. Part of Seven Sisters Road has been closed as the operation continues. A VAN has reportedly mown down pedestrians near London Mosque. The London Ambulance Service said it has sent a number of vehicles to Finsbury Park.

Might Republicans want Trump impeached and removed from office? Cullen - who has experience litigating the Iran-Contra investigation, Watergate and the 2000 vote recount in Florida - is a former U.S. Trump spent a good portion of the day tweeting in anger about that and other related issues. Later in the afternoon, Trump and the first lady traveled to the Supreme Court for the investiture ceremony for Justice Neil Gorsuch.

The second round of the parliamentary election was marked by low voter turnout and was down sharply on five years ago. In the final round of France's presidential election, Le Pen lost out to Macron in a vote that had been framed as the country's possible rejection of the European ideal.

No information is available on causalities at the moment. Boubacar Sangare, a witness, was just outside the compound during the attack. Malian troops and soldiers from France's Bakhane counter-terrorist force are at the scene. Among the places described in the US Embassy's warning as places to avoid were "Western diplomatic missions, places of worship, and other locations in Bamako where Westerners frequent", according to the statement on the Embassy's website .

A person familiar with Mueller's inquiry, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Thursday Mueller was looking into whether Trump or others attempted to obstruct the Russian Federation investigation. Comey said he told the president on three occasions that he wasn't personally under investigation. Mr Trump yesterday announced the partial reversal of Barack Obama's Cuba policy, reimposing restrictions on travel and business in a move he said would "empower the Cuban people and hold ...

SBC: In a multi-party electorate system such as the United Kingdom, is the new political reality that it will be harder for any party to gain a majority government? Should May resign, instability and new elections are a real possibility; if she stays them an election might come soon because of how weak May is, and because of the fact that she faces the mammoth task of Brexit negotiations despite her limited mandate.

At least one Afghan soldier has been killed and several American soldiers wounded in an incident at a base in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. Such "indoor" attacks, in which Afghan soldiers or policemen return their weapons against members of the global coalition responsible for them, is a recurring nightmare for Western forces in Afghanistan.

Earlier this week, Newsmax CEO and close Trump ally Chris Ruddy set the news cycle on fire when he claimed that President Donald Trump was thinking about terminating special counsel Robert Mueller . Trump , according to The Times , has brought up the legal and political implications of firing Mueller, whom he reportedly thinks is "incapable of an impartial investigation".

This massive project, which would link Russia to Germany while bypassing Ukraine, would double the Russian natural-gas company Gazprom's capacity to move oil directly into Europe and make the Continent even more dependent on Russian resources.

Funeral of commander Junaid Mattoo held at his ancestral village in Khudwani of Qaimoh tehsil of Anantnag district. They said a ROP of security forces was sacked upon by militants at Bijbehara on the highway. After the incident, clashes broke out between protesters and security forces at almost a dozen places in the Valley, including downtown Srinagar, Tral, Pampore, Pulwama town and Anantnag in south Kashmir, Hajin in Bandipora and Sopore in Baramulla in north Kashmir.

The singer was pictured visibly upset by the situation, as eyewitnesses claim she was "asking if anyone needs help". She also posted an image of the tower, and wrote "RIP" on Snapchat. They wrote: "Adele near the #Grenfell Tower in an Abaya". Respect to both of you. It isn't the first time Adele has shown her respect after tragedy has struck London, as back in March she told fans in Auckland that she wanted to be at home after a terror attack left four dead and 40 injured when a auto drove ...

Earlier it was reported 57 victims and almost 60 injured. Officials in the southern European country said that numerous victims of the fires, which spread to the city of Pedrogao Grande, were caught by the blaze as they attempted to escape in their cars.

The president cannot be investigated, or certainly cannot be found liable for engaging in an activity he clearly has power to do under the constitution". Trump is under pressure to reveal whether he has any tape recordings of private conversations with Comey. He said, however, that Sekulow's comments could mean the White House was taking the position that no investigation exists until Mueller's team officially confirms it, disregarding media reports based on anonymous sourcing.

The North's Foreign Ministry spokesman said a delegation of the North returning from a United Nations conference on the rights of persons with disabilities "was literally mugged" at the John F. This is the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the USA and North Korea following the return of prisoner Otto Warmbier , 22, who is in a coma after being held by North Korea for 17 months.

The US-led coalition on Sunday said it downed the plane after it dropped bombs on American-backed forces fighting ISIL in northern Syria . USA -led jets stopped the fighting by flying close to the ground and at low-speed in what is called a "show of force", the Pentagon said.